Photos from the Road: Sausalito's Sunday Farmer's Market

Condé Nast Traveler's Associate Web Producer, Danielle Berman shares her photos from an unexpected stop in Sausalito, California, along a bus tour to Muir Woods from San Francisco. She stops and chats with vendors at the Sunday Farmer's Market in Dunphy Park.

On a recent spontaneous trip to San Francisco (spurred by shockingly reasonable airfare from JFK to SFO), I found a company that offered a bus tour to one of the last great quiet places, Muir Woods (which really was quiet!—and beautiful) and a boat cruise on the Bay. However, my favorite part of the tour and possibly our entire trip, was the unexpected stop in Sausalito before heading back to San Francisco for our cruise. You know "the dock of the Bay" that Otis Redding was sittin' on? That's in Sausalito, and so is an awesome Sunday farmer's market. Our bus driver parked near the Ferry pier and we walked along Bridgeway to Dunphy Park where the market is held every Sunday from 10am to 2pm.

Our first stop was Ani Toroyan's Mediterranean Catering booth. The manaish (far left) is Lebanese herbed "pizza" with zaatar—a mixture of sesame seeds, olive oil, thyme and other Middle Eastern spices. (It made for a great snack on the flight home.) Ani reached into her secret stash behind the booth and offered us her signature maamoul, cookies made from cream of wheat, nuts, honey, and a long list of spices.

Next, we met Patrick and Julie from Nana Mae Organics. What better way to wash Ani's cookies down than with fresh pear juice? When I saw the cinnamon-spiced applesauce and the Gravenstein apple, raisin, and fig mostarda, I was kicking myself for not checking a bag at the airport. Damn you, three-ounce rule!

These oranges "blew my damn mind". In conversation with De Santis Farms vendor Maria, we discovered that she had visited my hometown in northern New Jersey just a week prior—one of her relatives owns the sports bar across the street from my local grocery store. Small, small world. Also, how cool are those sweet limes that look like mini lemons?

On the way back to the city, we stopped for a great photo opp of the Golden Gate Bridge. But I was more excited about something else—Cavallo Point (a.k.a. historic Fort Baker), a spot I’d only known from doing photo research for this article.